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The  Leaflet,  Published  June,  1912. 

In  this  leaflet  I  am  to  tell  you  something  about 
the  so-called  "Pastor"  C.  T.  Russell,  the  founder 
and  chief  executive  of  "Millennial  Dawnism." 
Though  the  name  of  Russell  is  quite  familiar,  very 
little  is  known  about  the  man  himself.  Nothing  is 
known  of  his  parentage  nor  of  his  early  boyhood. 
We  first  hear  of  him  selling  shirts  in  Alleghany,  Pa., 
having  inherited  this  business  from  his  father.  He 
lectured  on  religious  subjects  from  time  to  time  in 
various  halls  and  churches,  becoming  known  as 
the  crank  preacher.  He  got  a  considerable  follow- 
ing of  the  common  people,  and  sold  out  the  five 
men's  furnishing  stores  which  he  owned,  thence- 
forth devoting  all  his  time  to  teaching  and  preach- 
ing his  peculiar  religious  doctrines  and  giving  out 
that  he  himself  "was  some  great  one."  He  never 
attended  the  higher  schools  of  learning,  knows  com- 
paratively nothing  of  philosophy,  systematic  or  his- 
torical theology,  and  is  totally  ignorant  of  the  dead 


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languages,  and  yet  he  is  successful  in  making  his 
disciples  believe  that  the  most  difficult  passages  in 
the  Old  Testament  and  the  book  of  Revelation  are 
as  simple  as  a  sunbeam  to  him.  "Pastor"  Russell 
was  never  ordained  and  has  no  church  affiliation. 
He  would  not  be  given  a  place  in  the  pulpit  of  any 
evangelical  church  on  the  American  continent  or 
any  other  country  where  he  and  his  religious  views 
are  known.  By  thousands  he  is  believed  to  be 
a  religious  fakir  of  the  worst  type,  who  goes 
about  like  the  Magus  of  Samaria  enriching  him- 
self at  the  expense  of  the  ignorant.  Years  ago 
he  gave  himself  the  title  of  "Pastor"  and  from  this 
many  have  inferred  that  he  was  a  properly  ap- 
proved minister  of  the  gospel.  In  1879,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Marie  F.  Ackley,  who  divorced  him  a 
few  years  ago  on  the  ground  of  cruelty  and  of  hav- 
ing wrong  relations  with  other  v/omen.  In  court, 
she  proved  improprieties  between  her  husband  and 
one  Rose  Ball.  Mrs.  Russell  is  now  living  at  Ava- 
lon.  Pa. 

"Pastor"  Russell  was  in  Toronto  a  few  weeks  ago 
and  announced  himself  as  the  head  and  "president" 
of  the  so-called  "International  Bible  Students'  As- 
sociation," with  head  office  in  London,  England. 
When  he  first  began  his  propaganda  his  headquar- 
ters were  in  Alleghany,  Pa.  In  course  of  time,  he 
was  successful  in  building  up  an  elaborate  publish- 
ing establishment  in  Pittsburgh,  v/hich  he  called 
"Zion's  Watch  Tower."  In  a  worldly  way  things 
went  well  with  him  for  a  time.   Then  he  gave  the 


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name  "Millennial  Dawn"  to  his  publications.  The 
stories  of  the  divorce  proceedings  got  into  circula- 
tion  about  him,  and  his  business  suffered.  Wishing 
to  frustrate  the  verdict  of  the  court  in  giving  his 
wife  alimony,  he  changed  the  names  of  his  publica- 
tions to  "Studies  in  the  Scriptures,"  and  transferred 
the  head  office  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  it  is  at  the 
present  time.  Since  taking  this  new  location  the 
institution  is  known  as  "The  Watch  Tower  Bible 
and  Tract  Society,"  "The  London  and  Brooklyn 
Tabernacles,"  "The  People's  Pulpit,"  and  now  the 
"International  Bible  Students'  Association."  It 
comes  out  that  these  names  separately  and  to- 
gether are  appellations  bestowed  by  Russell  upon 
himself,  and  his  followers.  By  the  name  "Inter- 
national Bible  Students  Association,"  the  public 
is  deceived  into  thinking  that  the  institution  is  in- 
ternational in  extent,  that  the  governments  of  the 
world  are  behind  it,  and  that  it  is  made  up  of  ac- 
credited representatives  of  all  the  denominations 
and  theological  colleges,  when  in  fact  the  name 
stands  only  for  the  followers  of  one  man,  and  not 
a  scholar  at  that.  That  appellation  is,  therefore,  a 
misnomer.  Its  purpose  and  use  is  to  derive  the 
public.  The  opinion  of  that  organization  (if  it  be 
an  organization)  is  the  opinion  of  one  man. 

At  the  present  time,  the  "Brooklyn  Eagle"  has 
its  talons  in  Russell,  and  shows  him  to  be  a  most 
undesirable  citizen.  Many  other  papers,  both  secu- 
lar and  sacred,  on  both  sides  of  the  line,  are  compel- 
ling him  to  stand  forth  in  the  limelight  in  his  true 


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colors.  By  "The  Brooklyn  Eagle,"  he  stands 
charged  with  defrauding  his  wife  of  her  dower  in- 
terest, with  having  his  name  sensationally  con- 
nected with  those  of  other  women,  with  giving  him- 
self out  as  an  interdenominationalist,  when,  in  fact, 
he  is  connected  with  none,  but  opposed  to  all,  with 
publishing  himself  as  giving  addresses  to  great 
crowds  in  important  places,  where  he  has  not 
spoken  a  word  at  all,  with  seeking  to  dupe  cer- 
tain ministers  into  supporting  daring  transactions, 
with  being  connected  with  lead,  asphalt  and  turpen- 
tine companies,  with  selling  or  causing  to  be  sold 
"Miracle  Wheat,"  at  $60  a  bushel,  with  influencing 
the  sick  and  dying  to  make  their  wills  in  his  favor, 
with  engineering  the  sale  of  a  property  worth  $35,- 
000  for  $50  for  the  purpose  of  defrauding  another. 
These  are  sins  no  man  would  care  to  have  charged 
against  him,  and  yet  they  are  publicly  accredited 
to  this  "Pastor"  Russell,  the  "President"  of  the  so- 
called  "International  Bible  Students'  Association," 
that  world-wide  society  that  spoke  the  other  day 
with  such  authority  on  the  subject  of  eschatology, 
stating  that  there  was  no  hell  for  the  sinful.  Does 
it  not  look  as  if  the  wish  were  parent  to  the  thought 
in  his  case?  These  and  other  charges  have  been 
made  against  this  false  teacher  and  shepherd,  and 
remain  unanswered.  He  is  an  eccentric  individual 
and  advertises  on  the  bill-boards  in  a  most  gro- 
tesque fashion.  Judging  from  his  advertisements 
of  himself,  many  do  not  think  him  normal,  and  so 
are  persuaded  that  he  is  self-deceived. 


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Russell  has  published  a  set  of  books,  bound  in 
six  volumes,  including  about  two  thousand  pages, 
which  he  now  calls  "Studies  in  the  Scriptures."  The 
title  is  misleading  and  is  intended  to  deceive  the 
Christian  public.  The  teaching  of  these  books  sub- 
verts the  faith  of  Christians  of  all  evangelical  de- 
nominations and  substitutes  for  the  truth  as  it  is  in 
Christ  the  destructive  doctrines  of  one  man,  who 
is  neither  a  scholar  nor  a  theologian.  The  whole 
system  of  Russellism  is  anti-rational,  anti-scientific, 
anti-Biblical,  anti-Christian  and  a  deplorable  per- 
version of  the  Gospel  of  God's  dear  Son. 

There  is  nothing  in  the  English-speaking  world 
to  compare  with  the  system  presented  in  the  books 
for  error.    The  great  heretical  leaders  of  the  early 
centuries  were  not  more  daring,  more  blasphemous 
or  m.ore  destructive  than  is  the  author  of  these 
books.    They  contradict  almost  every  fundamental 
of  evangelical  Christian  faith  by  a  bold  denial  of  the 
proper  deity,  incarnation,  resurrection,  ascension  and 
high  priestly  intercession  of  Jesus  Christ.  Russell 
also  denies  the  Second  Advent  of  Christ  in  the  Bib- 
lical sense  of  that  event,  the  personality,  work  and 
deity  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  Trinity  and  the  atone- 
ment made,  through  the  death  and  risen  life  of 
Christ.  He  teaches  that  the  Second  Advent  of  Christ  | 
took  place  in  1874,  that  those  who  sleep  in  Christ  j 
experienced  their  resurrection  in  1878,  and  that  the 
present  order  of  things  will  terminate  in  October,/ 
1914.     He  also  makes  bold  to  affirm,  the  Bible  to' 
the  contrary,  that  "eternal  life"  is  mere  existence 


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being  exclusively  a  quantity,  not  a  quality  of  life; 
that  it  is  not  a  present  possession  on  faith,  but  a 
future  inheritance  conditioned  upon  good  conduct 
and  character  here.  Moreover,  Russell  teaches  and 
affirms  in  these  books  that  there  is  no  conscious  fu- 
ture punishment  for  sin,  and,  though  inconsistent, 
after  death  some  time,  somewhere,  there  will  be  a 
second  chance  and  another  offer  of  salvation. 

.  Thus  we  see  from  a  careful  and  unprejudiced  an- 
alysis of  the  teachings  of  the  "Millennial  Dawn" 
Books,  issued  by  the  self-styled  "Pastor"  Russell, 

I  that  the  system  of  error  which  he  represents  is  a 
combination  of  Unitarianism,  Universalism,  Restor- 
ationism.  Second  Probationism,  Swedenborgianism 

»  and  Annihilationism. 

Every  reader  is  warned  against  this  false  teacher 
and  his  teaching  as  dangerous  in  the  extreme.  It  is 
safer  to  stand  by  the  Lord  Jesus  than  by  any  human 
teacher.  It  is  safer  to  take  our  system  of  truth  from 
the  Bible  than  from  the  Watch  Tower.  It  is  safer 
to  take  the  creeds  of  Christendom  than  the  vagaries 
o£  one  man.  See  Matt.  7-15 ;  1  John  4-1. 


THE  LIBEL  CASE. 

Hamilton,  Ont. 

Because  of  the  publication  and  circulation  of  the 
foregoing  leaflet  entitled  "Some  Facts  about  the 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL 


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Self-Styled  'Pastor,'  Charles  T.  Russell"  of  Millen- 
nial Dawn  Fame  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  purporting  to 
reflect  seriously  upon  his  character,  on  Dec.  2nd, 
1912,  Mr.  Russell  issued  a  summons  against  me 
charging  me  with  criminal,  defamatory  libel.  On 
Dec.  9th,  the  case  came  up  for  hearing  before  Mag- 
istrate George  H.  Jelfs,  Esq.,  in  the  police  court  of 
Hamilton,  Ont.,  and  a  committal  for  trial  was  made, 
without  permission  being  given  to  the  defense  to 
cross-examine  Mr.  Russell,  the  Magistrate  claiming 
that  he  had  not  the  power  to  try  the  case.  Mr.  Rus- 
sell was  compelled  to  give  a  cash  security  of  five 
hundred  dollars  to  appear  in  Hamilton  at  the  next 
sitting  of  the  High  Court  of  Ontario  and  to  push  the 
case  to  a  finish.  I  was  not  asked  for  a  bond  or  even 
for  my  signature  to  appear  and  defend  the  case, 
which  was  very  unusual.  This  decision  of  the  Mag- 
istrate was  appealed  to  Chief  Justice  Meredith  of 
Toronto  and  was  ruled  out  by  him  as  irregular  and 
illegal.  This  necessitated  the  case  being  begun  over 
again,  whereupon  Mr.  Russell  came  to  Hamilton 
again  secretly,  issued  a  second  summons  and  left  the 
city  immediately  for  parts  unknown. 

The  case  came  up  a  second  time  before  Magistrate 
George  H.  Jelfs  in  the  Police  Court  of  Hamilton, 
Ont.,  on  Feb.  7th,  1913,  but  Mr.  Russell  did  not  put 
in  an  appearance.  We  were  informed  that  Mr.  Rus- 
sell was  not  in  Canada  and  that  he  could  not  be 
forced  into  the  country,  that  for  an  unknown  period 
he  would  be  out  of  the  United  States  and  that  the 
case  could  go  on  without  his  presence.  Through  my 


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Attorney,  George  Lynch  Staunton,  K.  C,  an  appli- 
cation was  made  for  an  enlargement  of  the  case  for 
the  purpose,  if  at  all  possible,  of  securing  the  pres- 
ence in  Hamilton  of  Mr.  Russell  for  direct  and  cross- 
examination.  Now  the  fight  was  on.  It  is  worthy 
of  note  that  Mr.  Russell,  though  present  in  Court 
and  hearing  all  the  damaging  evidence  against  him 
in  his  case  against  the  Brooklyn  Eagle  for  damages 
amounting  to  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  did  not 
enter  the  witness  box  in  his  own  defense.  The  de- 
fense was  anxious  for  him  to  be  put  in  the  witness 
box,  but  the  prosecution  did  not  allow  him  to  appear. 
It  was  announced  and  expected  that  he  would  ap- 
pear to  explain  and  refute  the  charges,  brought 
against  him,  but  all  were  disappointed.  In  speak- 
ing of  "Pastor"  Russell's  character  Ex-Judge  Oeland 
stated  the  following  to  the  jury.  "What  the  charac- 
ter of  the  plaintiff  is,  you  can  infer  from  the  fact  that 
he  did  not  take  the  witness  stand  and  let  you  look 
into  his  eyes  as  he  told  of  his  past  life.  He  did  not 
give  you  and  me  a  chance  to  question  him  as  to  how 
he  became  a  preacher  of  religious  doctrines,  why  ht 
left  Pittsburg,  why  he  came  here  and  what  he  in- 
tends to  do  when  he  leaves  here."  My  Attorney 
wrote  his  Secretary,  requesting  that  Mr.  Russell 
come  to  Hamilton  and  submit  to  cross-examination 
in  the  witness  box.  A  reply  was  received  to  the  ef- 
fect that  Mr.  Russell  had  left  the  United  States  and 
it  was  not  known  when  he  would  return.  -  If  this 
were  true  why  did  he  leave  the  United  States  when 
his  presence  was  required  for  the  case  here  in  Ham- 


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ilton?  About  this  time  I  was  informed  by  Mr.  S.  F. 
Washington,  K.  C,  Counsel  for  the  prosecution, 
that  if  I  would  render  Mr.  Russell  a  mild  apology, 
he  would  drop  legal  proceedings  immediately.  I  in- 
formed Mr.  Washington  that  knowing  the  facts  as 
I  did  about  that  man  and  his  teaching,  a  heavy 
fine  or  a  term  in  jail  would  be  preferable.  The  de- 
fense was  now  granted  an  order  to  force  the  prose- 
cutor in  the  witness  box,  should  he  put  foot  on  Cana- 
dian soil.  Our  problem  was  now  to  get  Mr.  Russell 
into  Canada.  I  wrote  him  a  personal  letter  urging 
him  to  come  to  Hamilton  on  the  next  date  fixed  for 
the  hearing  of  the  case  and  offered  to  pay  his  ex- 
penses. The  following  is  the  letter,  dated  Hamilton, 
Ont.,  February  18,  1913: 

"Mr.  C.  T.  Russell, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Mr.  Russell: — 

"You  have  entered  legal  action  against  me  for 
defamatory  libel  because  I  published  and  caused  to 
be  circulated  a  leaflet  entitled,  'Some  facts  about 
the  self-styled  Pastor  Charles  T.  Russell.'  I 
am  sincerely  desirous  that  you  should  push  this  ac- 
tion to  a  finish.  If  I  set  you  forth  in  a  false  light,  I 
wish  to  know  it  and  to  take  the  consequences,  and 
if  I  told  you  the  truth  I  wish  the  Canadian  public  to 
know  it.  When  I  published  that  leaflet  I  believed 
the  facts  stated  to  be  absolute  truth.  Had  I  any 
doubt  about  the  truthfulness  of  them,  I  certainly 


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would  not  have  signed  my  name  to  the  leaflet.  I  still 
believe  those  facts  to  be  true  and  I  am  confirmed  in 
my  faith  by  the  verdict  given  by  the  jury  in  Brook- 
lyn the  other  day.  There  was  no  malice  in  my  writ- 
ing that  leaflet  and  therefore  no  attempt  at  revenge. 
You  never  did  me  any  personal  harm.  I  never  heard  ^ 
or  saw  you  until  you  appeared  in  the  police  court 
here  a  few  weeks  ago.  The  leaflet  was  published 
purely  for  the  public  good,  and  as  a  warning  to 
weak  Christians." 

"The  case,  as  you  doubtless  know,  came  up  for 
hearing  again  in  the  Hamilton  police  court  on  the 
7th  inst.  That  hearing  was  postponed  for  three 
weeks  and  will  come  vip  again,  I  expect  on  the  28th 
inst.  This  postponement  was  granted  that  the  de- 
fense might,  if  at  all  possible,  secure  your  presence 
here  in  Hamilton  on  that  date,  the  defense  having 
obtained  the  right  of  putting  the  complainant  into 
the  witness-box  for  cross-examination,  should  he 
present  himself  on  Canadian  soil.  I  write  this  per- 
sonal letter  under  registered  seal,  earnestly  request- 
ing you  to  come  to  Hamilton  for  the  next  hearing 
of  our  case  on  Feb.  28th.  If  it  be  impossible  for  you 
to  appear  here  on  that  date,  will  you  please  fix  a 
date  and  inform  me  or  my  attorney  accordingly,  and 
we  will  endeavor  to  have  a  postponement  made  to 
meet  you.  I  urge  you  to  come.  For  your  own  sake, 
the  sake  of  your  friends  and  followers  and  also  for 
the  sake  of  the  public  in  general  you  ought  to  appear. 
The  defense  requires  your  presence  here.  In  all 
fairness  to  all  concerned  you  surely  are  under  obliga- 


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tion  to  come.  Should  you  come  I  will  be  pleased  to 
pay  your  return  fare  from  and  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

"Earnestly  awaiting  your  reply,  I  am. 
Sincerely  yours, 

J.  J.  ROSS." 

This  letter  was  ignored  by  him  until  he  was  com- 
pelled later  to  notice  it.  This  made  it  necessary  to 
take  an  additional  step  in  which  an  order  was  grant- 
ed in  the  County  Court  for  the  appointment  of  a 
commission  to  go  across  the  border  to  Brooklyn,  N. 
Y.,  and  to  compel  Mr.  Russell  to  undergo  cross-ex- 
amination there.  As  soon  as  he  was  advised  of  this 
— thinking  doubtless  that  it  would  be  to  his  advan- 
tage and  presuming  that  the  Hamilton  people  did 
not  knov/  as  much  about  him,  his  teachings  and 
methods  as  the  Brooklyn  people  did,  he  wrote  the 
Crown  Attorney  that  he  would  come  to  Hamilton 
and  submit  to  cross-examination.  He  came.  He  was 
put  into  the  v/itness  box  by  the  defense.  He  was 
on  the  stand  for  nearly  five  hours,  and  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  examination,  there  being  no  other 
course  the  Magistrate  again  ordered  a  committal  for 
trial.  The  cunning  "Brooklyn  Pastor"  seems  not  to 
have  enjoyed  this  experience  in  a  Canadian  Court 
and  his  cross-examination  by  a  Hamilton  lawyer, 
and  he  seems  also  to  have  resolved  that  this  expe- 
rience should  not  be  repeated.  At  all  events,  when 
he  found  himself  safely  back  in  Brooklyn  and  had  a 
little  time  to  recover  himself,  he  wrote  me  a  lengthy 
letter  urging  me  to  apologize  and  he  would  drop 
legal  proceedings  at  once.  His  exact  words  are  "If 


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you  will  apologize  the  error  of  your  course,  assuring 
me  that  you  regret  it  and  that  you  will  do  what  you 
can  to  correct  the  misimpressions  thus  put  forth,  I 
will  accept  the>  apology  and  discontinue  legal  action 
against  you  forthwith."  Seemingly  he  thought  I  did 
not  know  my  grounds  and  that  he  had  struck  terror 
to  my  heart.  But  "The  Devil  is  an  ass."  This  is 
apparently  his  common  method.  Because  Mr.  W.  R. 
Bradlaugh,  editor  of  "The  Christian's  Armoury,"  70 
Kings  Cross  Road,  London,  W.  C,  England,  pub- 
lished an  exposure  of  Mr.  Russell,  he  was  successful 
in  extorting  an  apology,  under  extreme  pressure  and 
threats,  the  shortness  of  time  (which  was  only  four 
days  for  the  defense  to  prepare  the  case),  the  dis- 
tance to  bring  witnesses  and  the  cost  of  litigation, 
compelling  Mr.  Bradlaugh  to  publish  in  three  suc- 
cessive issues  of  his  paper  a  correction,  withdrawal 
and  apology.  Within  two  days,  however,  the  law- 
yer for  the  defense  was  in  the  possession  of  facts 
which  should  have  made  the  retraction  null  and  void. 
Since  that  time  Mr.  Bradlaugh  has  published  a  full 
explanation  giving  some  of  these  facts,  thereby  prac- 
tically withdrawing  his  apology  to  Mr.  Russell  and 
he  still  continues  the  exposure  of  him.  By  wilful 
misrepresentations  and  threats  of  legal  procedure, 
he  has  also  compelled  the  editor  of  an  American 
church  paper  called  "The  Megaphone"  to  apologize 
and  retract.  I  received  his  request  for  an  apology 
on  March  21st,  1913,  and  on  the  self-same  date  with- 
out it  being  necessary  for  one  moment's  considera- 
tion, I  sent  the  following  very  brief  reply.   "On  my 


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return  to  the  city  to-day  I  found  your  letter  of  the 
19th  inst.  awaiting  me.  I  have  carefully  noted  its 
contents  and  in  reply  I  wish  to  say  that  I  have  no 
apology  to  offer  and  no  promise  to  make  as  to  the 
future  and  I  calmly  await  the  decision  of  the  Cana- 
dian Court  of  law." 

The  High  Court  opened  on  March  1st,  1913,  and 
the  case  came  before  the  Grand  Jury  for  considera- 
tion. The  only  evidence  that  was  in  was  obtained 
from  "Pastor"  Russell  himself  under  cross-examina- 
tion. After  comparing  the  charges  made  in  the  leaf- 
let with  the  evidence  thus  obtained,  the  jury  found 
absolutely  no  ground  for  libel  and  handed  down  the 
^rdict  "no  bill."  Thus  the  case  was  thrown  out  of 
court  by  the  evidence  furnished  by  "Pastor"  Russell 
himself. 

The  defense  was  exceedingly  sorry  that  the  case 
did  not  reach  the  petit  jury,  that  the  facts  we  had  on 
hand  might  be  made  known  to  the  public.  During 
the  pending  of  the  trial  considerable  excavating 
work  was  done  and  the  so-called  "Pastor"  Russell's 
life  and  character  were  dug  out  as  was  also  his 
Christ  dishonoring  and  blasphemous  teaching.  Our 
witnesses  were  all  present  for  the  trial,  but  were  not 
called,  it  being  unnecessary.  Among  them  was  Mrs. 
M.  F.  Russell,  the  woman  he  promised  before  God 
and  certain  witnesses  to  honor,  love,  protect  and 
cherish  until  death  did  them  part.  Mrs.  Russell  is 
a  modest,  intelligent,  charming  devoted  Christian 
woman.  One  can  see  at  a  glance  that  she  possesses 
a  vastly  superior  intellect  and  personality  to  that  of 

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Mr.  Russell.  According  to  the  law  of  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania,  a  few  years  ago,  she  divorced  her 
husband,  obtaining  alimony,  which  he  did  not  pay, 
but  his  friends" made  payment  to  save  him;  he  fought 
the  case  for  five  years,  appealing  it  twice.  On  the 
third  trial  not  only  did  he  lose,  but  the  alimony  was 
increased  and  all  the  costs  levied  upon  him.  All  who 
know  Mrs.  Russell,  speak  in  the  highest  terms  of 
her. 

This,  in  brief,  is  the  outline  of  the  libel  case 
brought  against  me,  and  I  declare  that  the  facts 
herein  stated  are  truth. 


RUSSELL  BEFORE  THE  COURTS. 

In  writing  further  about  Russell,  or  RusseUism, 
the  authority  for  what  I  state  is  not  "hearsay"  evi- 
dence. I  have  before  me  the  evidence  obtained  in 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  No.  1  of  Alleghany 
County,  Pa.,  U.  S.  A.,  June  term,  1903,  before  Hon- 
orable F.  H.  Collier,  P.  J.,  and  a  jury,  when  S.J. 
Porter  and  D.  F.  Patterson,  Esquires,  acted  for  Mrs. 
Russell  and  J.  McF.  Carpenter  and  W.  M.  Mcjun- 
kin.  Esquires,  represented  Mr.  Russell.  Mr.  Alex- 
ander Callow,  the  Official  Reporter  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  No.  1  of  Alleghany  County,  Pa.,  U. 
S.  A.  certifies,  under  oath,  that  this  document  num- 
bering from  one  to  two  hundred  and  fifty-two  in- 
clusive contains  a  full  and  correct  transcript  of  all 


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the  evidence  taken.  I  have  also  beside  me  the  evi- 
dence obtained  in  the  Superior  Court  of  New  York, 
U.  S.  A.,  which  was  held  in  the  presence  of  Justice 
Charles  H.  Kelvy,  Esq.,  and  a  jury,  in  Mr.  Russell's 
libel  case  against  the  Brooklyn  Eagle  for  damages 
amounting  to  $100,000.  Then  I  also  have  in  my  pos- 
session a  complete  and  correct  transcript  of  all  the 
testimony  obtained  from  Russell  himself  here  in  the 
police  court  of  Hamilton  in  his  case  against  me  for 
criminal  libel,  held  before  George  H.  Jelfs,  Esq.  To- 
gether with  these  documents  I  have  his  books,  pa- 
pers, letters  written  by  him,  etc.,  and  knowledge  se- 
cured from  personal  investigation  into  his  life,  char- 
acter, teaching,  and  business  methods,  etc.  What  I 
now  tell  the  reader  is  first  hand  knowledge  and  I 
will  be  prepared  to  defend  it  in  the  Court  of  Law. 

When  Mr.  Russell's  case  against  me  came  up  for 
its  first  hearing  on  Dec.  9th,  1912,  it  was  neces- 
sary for  him  to  be  present  in  person  to  identify  him- 
self and  to  deny  the  charges,  or  whatever  charges 
which  he  claimed  to  be  untrue,  contained  in  the  leaf- 
let. Under  oath,  he  positively  and  most  emphatically 
denied  every  charge  made  against  him.  The  leaflet 
was  read  part  by  part  to  him  and  he  was  asked  by 
the  Crown  Attorney,  "Is  this  true?"  His  answers 
throughout  were  "No,  no,  no,"  "Absolutely  untrue," 
"Decidedly  untrue,"  "That  is  not  true,"  etc.,  until  he 
came  to  the  "miracle  wheat,"  and  then  he  said,  "The 
item  about  the  miracle  wheat  might  be  said  to  have 
a  particle  of  truth,  just  one  grain  of  truth  in  it  in  a 
sense."  This  is  the  only  admission  of  truth,  he  al- 


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lowed,  in  the  charges  made  against  him.   By  deny- 
ing these  charges,  he  claimed  for  himself  a  high 
scholastic  standing,  having  a  knowledge  of  the  dead 
languages,  haying  taken  a  course  in  theology,  sys- 
tematic and  historical  theology,  ordination,  church 
affiliation  and  so  on.  But  now  what  are  the  facts  as 
they  were  brought  out  by  the  examination  on  March 
17th,  1913?  As  to  his  scholastic  standing,  he  had 
sworn  that  what  was  said  about  it  was  not  true.  Un- 
))  der  the  examination,  he  admitted  that,  at  most,  he 
f }  had  attended  school  only  seven  years  of  his  life,  that 
'  the  public  school,  and  that  he  had  left  school  when 
yhe  was  about  fourteen  years  of  age,  just  at  the  open- 
I  Hng  of  the  adolescent  period,  when  the  directional 
.  r  element  is  so  necessary  in  a  boy's  life.    "Do  you 
know  the  Greek"?  Asked  the  Attorney.  "Oh,  yes," 
was  Russell's  reply.   Here  he  was  handed  a  copy  of 
\  ,  the  New  Testament  in  Greek,  by  Westcott  &  Hort, 
/  and  asked  to  read   the  letters  of  the  alphabet 
\  /  as    they    appear    on    the    top    of    page  447. 
n  He  did  not  know  the   alphabet.  "Now,"  asked 
Mr.    Staunton,    "Are    you    familiar    with  the 
Greek  language?"  "No,"  said  Mr.  Russell,  without 
a  blush.  When  he  saw  that  he  was  caught,  then  he 
admitted  that  he  knew  nothing  about  Latin,  and 
Hebrew  and  neither  had  he  ever  taken  a  course  in 
Philosophy,  Systematic  Theology  and  neither  had 
he  ever  attended  any  of  the  higher  schools  of  learn- 
ing. A  trap  had  been  set  for  him  at  every  one  of 
these  points,  and  having  been  caught  in  the  first,  he 
thought  it  best  for  him  to  "own  up  before  he  was 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL  19 


shown  up."  As  it  was,  he  was  shown  up.  This  is  the 
man  who  goes  about  claiming  that  he  alone  has  the 
proper  understanding  of  the  Scriptures,  condemning 
the  translators  of  the  Bible  and  denouncing  all  min-- 
isters  and  teachers  of  the  Word  except  himself,  and 
his  little  satellites,  as  ignorant,  empty-headed  and 
deceitful.  Russell  has  made  quite  a  free  use  of  the 
dead  languages  in  his  books,  but  this  is  evidently  not 
done  by  himself,  but  another,  with  the  end  in  view 
of  misleading  the  ignorant,  and  trying  to  catch  ther 
educated.  He  has  familiarized  himself  with  a  few 
big  Greek  terms  which  have  become  Anglicized, 
such  as  "Apocalypsis,  Epiphaneia,  parousia,  parak- 
letos,"  etc.,  puts  his  own  meaning  into  them  and 
then  goes  about  using  them  before  his  audiences,^ 
and  those  who  do  not  know  any  better  think  him  a 
highly-educated  man.  This  is  the  man  also  who 
condemns  all  books  and  papers  except  those  written 
by  himself  or  published  by  the  Watch  Tower  Bible 
and  Tract  Society. 

Now  as  to  his  ordination.  Remember  that  the  self- 
styled  "Pastor"  is  still  under  oath  and  that  he  says, 
"The  oath  is  sacred."  It  is  indeed  sacred  to  him.  "Is 
it  true  that  you  were  never  ordained?"  asked  his 
counsel.  "It  is  not  true,"  replied  Mr.  Russell,  But 
my  counsel  takes  him  in  hand  and  being  wileful,  it 
is  difficult  to  keep  the  arch-heretic  to  the  point.  His 
Worship,  the  Magistrate,  was  appealed  to  and  Rus- 
sell is  informed  that  he  must  answer  yes  or  no. 
"Now,"  said  Mr.  Staunton,  "You  never  were  or- 
dained by  a  bishop,  clergyman.  Presbytery,  council, 


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or  any  body  of  men  living."  After  a  considerable 
pause  and  his  eyes  fixed  on  his  feet  in  the  witness 
box,  he  said,  "I  never  was."  He  was  caught  again! 
and  he  was  not  abashed.  This  is  the  gentleman 
that  gives  himself  forth  all  over  the  world  as  a  fully 
accredited  minister  of  the  gospel.  What  a  low 
standard  of  morals  he  must  have!  What  a  seared 
conscience  he  must  possess.  He  swore  he  would 
tell  the  truth,  all  the  truth  and  nothing  but  the 
truth,  and  that  under  the  eyes  of  Almighty  God. 
But  how  artful  he  is  even  under  oath  in  devising 
falsely!    In  other  words,  what  a  fabricator. 

We  now  come  to  Russell's  domestic  life.  It  was 
such  as  to  make  life  intolerable  to  his  wife,  and  to 
justify  her  in  leaving  him  and  afterwards  suing  for 
a  limited  divorce,  which  one  court  granted  and  a 
higher  one,  on  appeal,  confirmed,  and  at  the  same 
time  most  severely  censuring  "Pastor"  Russell  for 
his  conduct,  which  the  court  described  as  "insult- 
ing," "domineering"  and  "overbearing"  to  a  degree 
which  made  life  intolerable  to  a  sensitive  Christian 
woman.  But  Russell  swore  here  that  his  wife  had 
not  divorced  him,  and  that  the  court  had  not  granted 
alimony  from  him.  Under  fire  by  Mr.  Staunton,  he 
was  compelled  to  confess  that  the  court  did  divorce 
him  from  his  wife  though  not  "absolutely"  and  that 
the  court  did  grant  his  wife  alimony.  Had  Mrs.  Rus- 
sell sued  for  absolute  divorce  she  could  not  have  ob- 
tained alimony,  which  she  needed.  In  the  divorce 
that  was  granted,  neither  party  have  the  privilege 
of  re-marrying.  A  limited  divorce  which  is  a  di- 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL  21 


vorce  from  bed  and  board  is  just  as  bad  as 
the  absolute  divorce,  which  is  a  breaking  of 
the  marriage  tie.  In  order  that  my  reader  may 
understand  this  I  quote  from  the  charge  to  the  jury 
by  Judge  Collier  who  was  on  the  Bench  at  that 
time.  He  said  to  the  jury:  "In  this  state,  one  of  the 
causes  for  divorce  is  the  offering  of  such  indignities 
to  the  person  of  the  wife  or  husband  as  to  rendej 
his  or  her  condition  intolerable  and  life  burdensome 
and  thereby  forcing  him  or  her  to  withdraw  from 
the  society  of  the  wife  or  husband.  That  is  this 
case,  and  it  is  totally  immaterial  whether  it  is  a  di- 
vorce from  bed  and  board  or  a  divorce  from  the 
bonds  of  matrimony,  because  in  both  cases  the  fam- 
ily relation  is  dissolved  and  every  one  is  harmed  if 
the  law  is  not  complied  with.  I  mention  these  things 
because  it  is  my  solemn  duty  to  do  so,  so  that  you 
will  understand  it,  and  I  have  no  doubt  you  do." 

"With  that  in  view,  examine  the  evidence.  This 
lady  must  satisfy  you,  gentlemen,  under  the  libel 
she  has  filed,  clearly  by  the  strength  of  the  evidence 
that  such  personal  indignities  were  put  upon  her 
from  time  to  time  continuously  for  some  period  of 
time,  not  occasionally,  but  continuously  for  some 
period  of  time,  so  as  to  render  her  condition  intoler- 
able and  life  burdensome  and  force  her  to  remove 
from  her  husband's  house. 

"You  all  know,  your  common  sense  teaches  you 
that,  without  a  judge  telling  you — that  every  little 
spat  between  a  husband  and  wife,  after  living  four- 
teen years  together,  is  not  a  cause  for  divorce.  Every 


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little  disagreement,  not  speaking  sometimes,  or  be- 
ing rough,  are  not  causes  for  divorce,  because  the 
marriage  relation  covers  all  that.  The  vows  they 
take,  as  you  ail  know,  cover  all  that.  It  must  be 
something  more  than  that,  it  must  be  such  indig- 
nities to  her  person  as  to  cause  her  to  leave 
her  husband  because  of  the  indignities  cast 
upon  her  making  her  life  burdensome  and  her  con- 
dition intolerable." 

"Now  with  that  definition  apply  the  evidence.  An- 
other rule  of  law  is  that  it  must  not  be  partly  her 
fault,  it  must  be  all  the  fault  of  her  husband.  .  .  . 
You  are  to  pass  upon  these  facts,  and  you  are  to 
judge  of  the  circumstances  of  these  people,  their 
intelligence,  their  manner  of  living,  their  pursuits 
and  everything  of  that  kind.  You  will  judge  and  say 
whether  these  indignities,  if  they  were  committed, 
caused  her  to  feel  that  her  condition  was  intolerable 
and  her  life  burdensome  and  she  would  have  to  go 
away." 

"If  they  did — and  I  have  only  mentioned  some  of 
them,  then  she  would  be  entitled  to  a  divorce  from 
bed  and  board  and  be  entitled  to  a  divorce  abso- 
lutely if  that  is  true.  There  is  no  difference  between 
a  divorce  from  bed  and  board,  and  divorce  abso- 
lutely; don't  get  mixed  about  that.  One  is  just  as 
bad  as  the  other;  it  takes  the  same  amount  of 
cause  in  the  one  case  as  in  the  other." 

The  divorce  was  given,  and  the  alimony  granted 
Mrs.  Russell.  Russell  had  a  considerable  property  in 
his  own  name.  He  tried  to  practise  fraud  upon  his 


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wife  by  transferring  his  property  to  corporations 
and  societies  over  which  he  himself  had  absolute 
and  complete  control.  Referring  to  this  fact,  the 
court  said,  "The  purpose  of  this  whole  transaction 
was  to  deprive  his  wife  of  her  dower  interest  and 
was  a  fraud  upon  her."  Mrs.  Russell  was  compelled 
to  petition  the  court  to  compel  her  husband  to  pay 
alimony,  and  an  attachment  was  ordered.  Judge 
J.  R.  McFarlane  who  was  on  the  Bench  at  the  time, 
and  had  heard  the  petition  expressed  the  opinion  of 
the  court  in  the  following  words:  "The  answer  of 
respondent  to  the  rule  for  attachment  is  in  large 
part  a  reiteration  of  the  defence,  set  up  to  the  ap- 
plication to  fix  alimony.  So  far  as  he  is  concerned,  it 
has  been  adjudicated  against  him  that  his  property 
was  disposed  of  by  him  in  fraud  of  his  wife's  rights, 
and  his  iteration  and  reiteration  of  denial  of  this 
charge  is,  at  the  least,  in  bad  taste,  especially  in  view 
of  the  circumstances  surrounding  the  sale  by  the 
Sheriff  of  the  Arch  Street  property  upon  a  trifling 
judgment  against  him."  (This  was  the  Bible  House, 
worth  $40,000  conveyed  by  Sheriff's  deed  to  the 
Watch  Tower  Bible  and  Tract  Society  for  $50.00 
on  a  judgment  of  less  than  $200.  Transfers  were  all 
made  to  this  Society  which  he  controls  absolutely.) 

"The  transfers  were  made,  so  far  as  the  respond- 
ent is  concerned,  without  the  right  to  do  as  against 
his  wife." 

"To  refuse  an  attachment  would  allow  any  re- 
spondent to  put  his  property  in  the  hands  of  a  friend 
who  is  amenable  to  his  will,  and  then  defy  the  power 
of  the  court." 


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When  Russell  saw  that  he  had  failed  in  this,  he 
attempted  another  course  of  fraud.  He  sought  to 
evade  payment  fixed  by  the  court  by  fleeing  from 
one  state  to  another,  making  it  necessary  for  his 
wife  to  get  an  extradition  order,  which  she  did,  and 
which  led  to  the  condemnation  of  the  cunning  "Pas- 
tor" by  a  third  court,  and  the  increase  of  the  ali- 
mony.  Commenting  on  Russell's  defense  and  con- 
duct on  this  occasion,  Judge  Delady  said:  "There 
is  not  one  syllable  in  the  testimony  to  justify  his 
repeated  aspersions  on  her  character  and  her  mental 
condition,  nor  does  he  intimate  in  any  way  that 
there  was  any  difference  between  them  other  than 
that  she  did  not  agree  with  him  in  his  views  of  life 
and  methods  of  conducting  their  business.  He  says 
himself  she  is  a  woman  of  high  intellectual  qualities 
and  perfect  moral  character.  While  he  denied  in  a 
general  way  that  he  attempted  to  belittle  his  wife 
as  she  claimed,  the  general  effect  of  his  own  testi- 
mony is  a  strong  confirmation  of  her  allegations." 
We  have  not  space  here  to  quote  to  any  extent  from 
the  court  records  of  this  case;  all  we  can  do  is  to 
summarize  the  findings,  and  we  will  give  nothing 
but  what  is  public  property  and  shall  rather  under- 
state than  overstate  the  case,  from  Mr.  Russell's 
point  of  view.  It  came  out  in  the  evidence  first  that 
his  "conceit,"  "egotism"  and  "domination"  were 
such  as  to  make  life  intolerable  to  any  sensitive  wo- 
man. Second,  that  his  conduct  in  relation  to  other 
women  was  "improper."  Third,  that  on  one  occasion 
that  he  was  silent  to  his  wife  for  four  weeks,  and 


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only  communicated  with  her  by  letters  of  a  re- 
proachful character.  Fourth,  that  he  sought  by  most 
despicable  means  to  isolate  his  wife  from  society, 
and  designed  to  get  her  pronounced  insane  in  order 
to  put  her  away. 

As  to  his  "improper"  conduct  towards  other  wo- 
men. That  you  might  see  that  I  know  whereof  I 
speak  and  am  telling  the  truth,  I  will  quote  from 
Mrs.  Russell's  evidence  upon  this  subject  taken  in 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  No.  1.  She  is  under 
oath,  and  direct-examination  by  her  Attorney,  Mr. 
Porter. 

Q.  When  did  you  have  your  first  material  dis- 
agreement with  your  husband? 

A.  The  first  serious  trouble  with  my  husband  was 
what  you  stated  this  morning,  the  first  indignity 
with  this  woman  who  was  in  the  office  and  in  our 
home. 

*       *       *  * 
Q.  What  was  the  name  of  the  girl? 
A.  Rose  Ball. 

Q.  That  is  the  girl  you  spoke  of  a  few  moments 
ago? 

A.  Yes,  sir. 

Q.  How  long  had  she  been  with  you  before  this 
trouble  arose? 

A.  She  came  to  us  in  about  1884. 

***** 

Q.  Did  she  live  with  you? 
A.  Yes,  sir. 

Q,  How  long  did  she  live  with  you? 


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A.  She  was  with  us  for  about  ten  or  eleven  years 
—oh,  she  was  with  us  about  twelve  years. 

Q.  Just  state  \i^hat  you  observed  about  your  hus- 
band's conduct  with  this  girl  in  your  presence  in 
your  home. 

A.  Previous  to  this  time  my  husband  had  sug- 
gested to  me  the  idea  of  separation,  and  he  said  if 
I  would  agree  to  a  separation  he  would  give  me  the 
house  in  which  we  were  living.  He  said  we  were 
incompatible. 

Q.  When  was  that? 

A.  That  was  shortly  before  this  objection  was 
made,  about  1893.  We  were  still  living  on  Clifton 
Avenue. 

Qi  What  brought  about  the  proposition  from 
your  husband? 

A.  A  number  of  disagreements,  and  one  thing  was 
this;  there  had  been  letters  that  my  husband  had 
written  to  parties  to  which  I  had  to  make  very  se- 
rious objections.  One  of  them  came  to  me  in  this 
way.  Mr.  Russell  had  certain  letters,  certain  en- 
velopes that  were  marked,  "Personal"  was  printed 
on  them,  and  he  sent  a  number  of  these  envelopes 
to  persons  that  he  wanted  to  correspond  with  him 
privately. 

***** 

Q.  I  want  you  to  tell  us  what  your  husband  did 
in  company  with  this  woman  Rose,  in  your  pres^ 
ence  and  in  your  home. 

A.  One  evening  I  spent  the  evening  downstairs, 
and  our  library  and  bedroom  were  next  to  each 


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27 


Other  upstairs  on  the  second  floor  and  I  spent  the 
evening  downstairs  reading,  and  I  went  upstairs 
about  ten  o'clock  to  my  room,  and  I  supposed  that 
he  was  either  in  the  Hbrary  or  had  retired,  and  when 
I  went  up  there,  I  found  that  he  was  in  neither 
place,  and  I  stepped  out  in  the  hall  and  there  I  found 
that  he  was  in  his  night  robe,  sitting  beside  Miss 
Ball's  bed  and  she  was  in  bed.  On  other  occasions  I 
found  him  going  in  there,  and  I  found  she  called 
him  in  and  said  she  wasn't  well  and  wanted  him  in, 
and  I  objected  to  this,  and  I  said  that  it  was  highly 
improper,  and  I  said,  "We  have  people  about  the 
house,  and  what  kind  of  a  name  will  be  attached  to 
this  house,  if  you  do  that  kind  of  thing?"  and  he  got 
angry. 

Q.  You  state  that  you  found  him  doing  this  at 
other  times.  How  often  after  that? 

A.  I  found  him  a  number  of  times;  I  don't  re- 
member how  often. 

Q.  In  her  room? 

A.  Yes,  sir.  And  I  found  him  in  the  servant  girl's 
room  as  well,  and  I  found  him  locked  in  the  servant 
girl's  room. 

Q.  Did  he  make  any  explanation  why  he  was  in 
the  girl's  room? 

A.  No,  he  did  not,  he  just  got  angry, 

Q.  What  did  you  say  to  him  about  this  conduct 
and  what  did  he  say? 

A.  I  said  to  him.  "We  have  a  great  work  on 
our  hands,"  and  I  said,  "In  this  work  you  and  I 
have  to  walk  very  circumspectly  before  the  world, 


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and  if  you  are  going  to  do  things  like  this,  what  will 
happen?  Suppose  you  are  all  right,  don't  you  sup- 
pose people  will  talk  about  things  like  this?  and  I 
said,  "I  am  not  satisfied  with  it,"  and  he  said  he 
wasn't  going  to  be  ruled  by  me.  But  I  felt  dis- 
tressed about  that. 

Q.  When  would  he  go  to  the  Watch  Tower  in 
the  morning? 

A.  I  don't  remember;  he  generally  went  down 
alone. 

Q.  Who  would  return  with  him? 

A.  She  came  with  him  in  the  evenings,  and  they 
came  home  about  eleven  o'clock  and  the  young  men 
that  were  in  the  office — she  was  the  only  girl,  and 
the  young  men  would  go  home,  and  he  wouldn't 
allow  her  to  go  home  with  them,  and  she  must  wait 
and  always  go  -with  him. 

Q.  I  want  the  mere  fact.  Did  this  girl  Rose  go 
home  with  your  husband? 

A.  Yes,  sir. 

Q.  And  the  young  men  came  home  ahead  of  them? 
A.  Yes,  sir. 

Q.  State  to  the  Court  and  Jury  what  talk,  if  any, 
you  had  with  this  girl  Rose,  in  regard  to  her  rela- 
tions with  your  husband,  which  you  communicated 
to  your  husband. 

A.  I  told  him  that  I  had  learned  something  that 
was  very  serious,  and  I  didn't  tell  him  right  away. 
1  let  a  day  elapse  until  I  felt  I  had  control  of  myself 
and  could  talk,  and  then  I  told  him  that  I  had  some- 
thing very  serious  to  tell  him  about  this  matter  and 


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he  said,  "What  is  it?"  and  I  said,  "Rose  has  told  me 
that  you  have  been  very  intimate  with  her,  and  that 
you  have  been  in  the  habit  of  hugging  and  kissing 
her  and  having  her  sit  on  your  knee  and  fondhng 
each  other,  and  she  tells  me  you  bid  her  on  no  ac- 
count to  tell  me,  but  she  couldn't  keep  it  any  longer. 
She  said  if  I  -was  distressed  about  it  she  felt  she 
would  have  to  come  and  make  a  confession  to  me, 
and  she  has  done  that." 
Q.  What  year  was  that? 

A.  He  tried  to  make  light  of  it  at  first,  and  I  said 
"Husband,  you  can't  do  that.  I  know  the  whole 
thing.  She  has  told  me  straight,  and  I  know  it  to  be 
true."  Well,  he  said  he  was  sorry ;  it  was  true,  but  he 
was  sorry.  He  said  he  didn't  mean  any  harm.  I  said 
"I  don't  see  how  you  could  do  an  act  like  that  with- 
out meaning  harm." 

Q.  What  year  was  that? 

A.  In  the  fall  of  1894. 

Q.  Did  you  state  to  your  husband  at  this  meeting 
any  endearing  terms? 
A.  Yes,  sir. 
Q.  What  were  they? 

A.  I  said,  "She  tells  me  that  one  evening  when 
you  came  home,"  I  asked  her  when  did  these  things 
occur?  I  said  to  him,  "She  says  they  occurred  down 
at  the  office  when  she  stayed  down  there  with  him 
in  the  evenings  after  the  rest  had  gone,  and  at  home 
at  any  time  when  I  wasn't  around." 
^Q.  Now,  about  the  endearing  terms? 

A.  She  said  one  evening  when  she  came  home 


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with  him,  just  as  she  got  inside  the  hall,  it  was  late 
in  the  evening,  about  eleven  o'clock,  he  put  his  arms 
around  her  and  kissed  her.  This  was  in  the  vesti- 
bule, before  they  entered  the  hall,  and  he  called  her 
his  little  wife,  but  she  said,  "I  am  not  your  wife/' 
and  he  said,  "I  will  call  you  daughter,  and  a  daugh- 
ter has  nearly  all  the  privileges  of  a  wife." 

Q.  Then,  what  other  terms  were  used? 

A.  Then  he  said,  "I  am  like  a  jelly  fish.  I  float 
around  here  and  there.  I  touch  this  one  and  that  one, 
and  if  she  responds,  I  take  her  to  me,  and  if  not,  I 
float  on  to  others,"  and  she  wrote  that  out  so  that  I 
could  remember  if  for  sure  when  I  would  speak  to 
him  about  it.  And  he  confessed  that  he  said  those 
things. 

When  here  in  court,  Russell  confessed  with  some 
difflculty  that  his  wife  had  "found"  him  in  his  night 
robe  in  the  room  of  Rose  Ball,  sitting  by  her  bed  and 
holding  her  hand,  but  explained  that  he  was  "only 
feeling  her  pulse,"  he  admitted  also  that  his  wife 
"found"  him  locked  in  the  room  of  the  other  servant 
girl,  Emily  Matthews,  but  explained  that  he  had 
locked  the  door  that  the  young  woman  might  hear 
what  he  had  to  say  to  her.  It  is  due  Mr.  Russell  also 
to  st&te  that  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  he 
swore  that  he  was  only  locked  in  the  servant  girl's 
room  a  minute,  and  in  our  Court,  he  swore  he  was 
locked  in  the  room  but  "two  minutes."  But  his  wife 
has  a  little  different  story  to  tell  about  the  length  of 
time  that  her  husband  was  locked  in  the  room. 
Though  not  under  oath — the  oath  makes  no  differ- 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL 


31 


ence  to  her — she  said,  "It  was  between  six  and  seven 
o'clock  in  the  morning.  I  missed  my  husband  and 
went  in  search  of  him.  I  called  to  him  but  there  was 
no  answer.  I  went  to  Emily's  room,  and  found  the 
door  locked.  I  called  to  him,  and  knocked  on  the 
door.  I  stood  there  for  seven  or  ten  minutes;  then 
he  came  out.  I  reprimanded  him,  and  he  only  got 
angry  and  said  'I  will  not  be  run  by  you.'  These  are 
not  my  words,  but  a  statement  of  Mrs.  Russell  to  my 
lawyers  in  my  presence.  Though  I  will  not  vouch  for 
the  truthfulness  of  this  statement,  I  have  all  confi- 
dence in  Mrs.  Russell's  veracity. 


RUSSELL  AND   HIS  BUSINESS  CORPORA- 
TIONS. 

In  the  leaflet,  Mr.  Russell  is  charged  with  being 
connected  with  "Lead,"  "Asphalt"  and  "Turpentine" 
Companies.  Under  his  direct-examination  by  his  at- 
torneys, he  was  asked,  "Now  if  these  charges  did  ap- 
pear in  the  Brooklyn  Eagle,  are  any  one  of  them 
true?"  "They  are  not  true,"  was  his  most  emphatic 
answer.  "Not  true?"  "Not  true."  But  when  he  was 
forced  into  the  witness  box  by  the  defense  and 
learned  that  we  had  the  facts  about  these  Companies 
on  hand,  and  the  charters  of  them  in  our  posses- 
sion, he  made  a  clean  breast  of  the  whole  thing.  He 
confessed  being  a  stockholder  in  the  Pittsburgh 
Asphaltum  Co.,  which  afterwards  became  the  Cali- 


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fornia  Asphaltum  Co.,  the  organizer  of  the  Selict 
Brick  Co.,  which  he  "entirely"  managed  from  the 
Bible  House  on  Arch  Street,  Pittsburg,  the  BraziUan 
Turpentine  Co.,  in  which  he  had  a  controlUng  inter- 
est, a  Cemetery  Company,  located  in  Pittsburg,  and 
the  U.nited  States  Coal  and  Coke  Co.,  with  capital 
stock  of  $100,000.  It  should  have  been  most  humiliat- 
ing to  swear  to  one  thing  and  then,  when  facing  the 
facts,  again  under  oath  to  be  compelled  to  confess  to 
the  very  opposite.  What  do  you  call  this?  Is  it 
strange  that  the  jury  brought  down  the  verdict  "No 
bill"? 

But  there  is  also  the  "Watch  Tower  Bible  and 
Tract  Society."  This  is  professedly  a  religious  or* 
ganization,  having  as  the  end  of  its  existence  the 
propagation  of  Christian  knowledge.  Originally  sev- 
en persons  composed  this  society.  In  the  evidence 
taken  here,  it  came  out  that  there  were  only  five 
in  that  society  now,  Russell  being  the  head  and 
President  and  one  William  E.  Van  Amburg,  the 
Secretary  and  Treasurer.  This  "Watch  Tower  Bible 
and  Tract  Society"  was  formerly  "Zion  Watch  Tow- 
er Bible  and  Tract  Society  of  Pittsburg."  Into  this 
society  the  so-called  "International  Bible  Students/' 
Russell's  followers,  "About  100,000  strong,"  as  Rus- 
sell says,  pay  their  money.  In  1912,  there  was  paid 
into  this  society  in  cash  donations  alone,  no  less  than 
$202,000.  For  every  $10  sent  in  at  any  one  time,  by 
any  one  person,  there  is  allowed  for  that  person,  if 
they  wish  to  make  the  application  for  it,  one  voting 
share.   The  voting  takes  place  on  the  first  Saturday' 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL  33 


of  every  year,  and  that  exclusively  for  the  election 
of  the  officers  of  the  said  society,  which  are  three 
in  number,  the  President,  Vice-President,  and  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer.  The  money  paid  into  this  So- 
ciety is  not  in  any  sense  returnable  to  the  giver,  and 
non-dividend  bearing;  when  one  gives  money  into 
that  society,  it  is  gone  completely,  it  is  gone,  for- 
ever. But  where?  It  came  out  in  the  evidence  in  the 
Eagle  case  that  only  50,000  shares  had  up  to  date 
been  issued  of  the  400,000  or  500,000  that  could  be 
issued  if  the  shares  were  all  called  for.  This  means 
that  there  is  represented  in  the  Watch  Tower  Bible 
and  Tract  Society  alone,  of  which  "Pastor"  Rus- 
sell is  the  head,  and  which  society  is  the  mother 
of  all  his  other  business  corporations  between  four 
and  five  million  dollars.  It  also  came  out  in  the 
evidence  that  of  the  50,000  voting  shares — and  re- 
member that  they  are  only  voting  shares — Russell 
holds  47,000  of  them.  The  other  3,000  being  dis- 
tributed unequally  among  the  other  four  or  six  mem- 
bers of  the  society.  On  every  first  Saturday  in  the 
year,  as  I  said,  this  society  of  five  men  meet  to  elect 
the  officers  and  Russell  casts  for  himself,  if  neces- 
sary 47,000  votes,  representing  $470,000.  He  is  al- 
ways elected  to  the  Presidency  of  this  "Religious" 
Society  without  opposition,  in  fact,  he  is  always 
elected  unanimously.  Is  is  any  wonder?  Russell 
financially  and  in  every  other  way  dominates  that 
society  and  clearly  he  is  that  society.  He  will  say, 
as  he  did  frequently  here  "The  Society  says,"  or 
"The  Society  has"  or  "The  Society  does,"  etc.  But 


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the  "society"  is  always  and  ^only  himself.  When 
money  is  sent  into  that  society  Russell  has  absolute 
control  over  it.  In  the  Hamilton,  Ontario,'  Insane 
Asylum,  there  .is  a  patient  from  whom  Russell  or 
"The  Society"  obtained — how,  I  do  not  know — the 
sum  of  $10,000,  this  was  all  the  man  had,  and  there 
is  no  hope  of  getting  that  money  returned.  Rus- 
sell, or  again,  the  "Society"  for  they  are  gen- 
erally synonymous  terms  recognizes  responsibility 
in  this  case,  and  pays  a  nominal  sum  for  that  man's 
keep  in  the  asylum.  This  is  a  sample  of  how  the 
"Society"  gets  its  money.  It  is  no  wonder  that  the 
Society  advertises  "No  collections"  in  its  meetings. 

But  there  is  another  Russellite  Company,  I  wish 
to  speak  about.  This  is  left  to  the  last,  because  it 
has  a  vital  connection  with  the  Watch  Tower  Bible 
and  Tract  concern.  I  mean  the  United  States  In- 
vestment Co.  The  crafty  "Pastor"  has  never  been 
willing  to  admit  that  there  is,  and  has  been,  this 
secret  Russellite  incorporated  body.  He  denied  that 
the  United  States  Investment  Co.  was  a  Russellite 
Co.,  that  he  was  the  President  or  Manager  of  it,  that 
he  was  a  stockholder  in  it,  or  that  he  had  any  inter- 
est in  it  whatever.  He  also  claims  that  this  United 
States  Investment  Co.  had  long  ago  become  de- 
funct. In  the  "People's  Pulpit,"  a  Russellite  paper. 
Vol.  3,  No.  13,  in  the  second  column,  near  the  top 
of  Page  2,  you  will  find  the  "Pastor"  explaining 
to  his  readers  about  this  Company.  He  says,  "I 
have  not  one  dollar  invested  in  it;  nor  have  I  been 
even  nominally  connected  with  it."  I  cannot  under- 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL 


35 


stand  how  a  man  who  is  normal  intellectually  and 
morally  can  make  such  denials.  His  own  Secretary 
and  Treasurer,  testifying  for  the  defense  in  the 
Eagle  case,  swore  that  there  was  that  Company, 
that  it  was  in  the  present  doing  business,  and  that 
it  was  a  holding  company  for  the  Bible  and  Tract 
Society.  That  the  reader  might  see  how  Russell 
told  the  exact  truth  and  nothing  but  the  truth  about 
himself  and  this  Company,  I  will  give  him  an  ex- 
tract from  the  Company's  charter.  From  the  rec- 
ords in  Pittsburgh  we  learn  that  this  Company  was 
incorporated  June  24,  1896. 

The  following  is  the  extract  from  the  charter: 

ARTICLE  1. 

Names  of  Subscribers:  John  A.  Bohnet,  Ernest 
C.  Henninges,  Chas.  T.  Russell. 

Amount  subscribed  by  each:  J.  A.  Bohnet,  $5.00; 
E.  C.  Henninges,  $5.00;  Charles  T.  Russell,  $990.00. 

ARTICLE  2. 
Capital  Stock,  $1,000;  dividend  into  1,000  shares; 
par  value  of  $1.00  each — all  paid  in. 

ARTICLE  3. 
For  purpose  of  buying  and  selling  real  estate,  pat- 
ent rights,  stocks,  bonds  and  other  securities,  mer- 
chandise, and  building  houses,  etc.  Location  of  As- 
sociation and  its  principal  office.  58  Arch  St.,  Alle- 
ghany. 

ARTICLE  4. 
Name  of  Association  is  U.  S.  Investment  Co.  Ltd. 


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ARTICLE  5. 

Contemplated  duration  20  years,  unless  sooner 
dissolved  by  majority  of  the  stockholders  in  number 
and  value  of  interest. 

ARTICLE  6. 

Officers — E.  C.  Henninges,  Chairman  and  Man- 
ager; J.  A.  Bohnet,  Secretary  Treasurer  and  Man- 
ager; C.  T.  Russell,  Manager. 

The  claim  is  now  made  that  this  U.  S.  I.  Co.  Ltd. 
has  no  property,  and  has  been  out  of  business  for 
"many  years."  The  records  in  Pittsburg  show 
transfers  of  property  to  this  self  same  society  as  late 
as  1911,  and  November,  1912.  You  can  see  that  the 
U.  S.  I.  Co.  Ltd.  is  in  existence,  is  doing  business, 
and  is  just  another  name  for  Russell.  It  is  purely 
a  holding  Company  for  the  Bible  and  Tract  Society, 
and  it  holds  all  it  can  get  its  hands  on.  We  found 
that  the  U.  S.  I.  Co.,  which  is  Russell,  holds  or  did 
hold  28  houses  and  lots  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  sev- 
eral lots  in  Tacoma,  Wash.,  a  farm  near  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  a  house  and  lot  in  Buffalo,  a  farm  in  Okla- 
homa, 100  lots  in  Texas,  a  house  and  lot  near  Pitts- 
burg, and  five  thousand  and  five  hundred  acres  of 
land  in  Kentucky.  This  is  only  a  small  fraction  of 
what  this  company  holds.  We  must  remember  ac- 
cording to  the  charter  out  of  the  $1,000  invested  in 
that  company  Russell  has,  or  had,  $990.00  of  it. 
It  is  said  that  the  other  $10.00  was  supplied  by  him, 
giving  the  other  two  men  five  shares  each,  in  order 
to  satisfy  the  lav/  of  that  State.  However  that  may 
be,  is  it  not  clear  that  the  U.  S.  I.  Co.  Ltd.  is  al- 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL  37 


together  and  only  Russell.  As  it  appears  to  me, 
this  is  the  way  it  works.  The  International  Bible 
Students  all  over  the  world,  and  others  who  are 
foolish  enough  to  do  so,  send  their  money  into  the 
Watch  Tower  Bible  and  Tract  Society,  which  is 
Russell.  A  part  of  that  money  is  used  to  pay  the 
expense  of  circulating  Russell's  literature,  paying 
his  advance  agents  and  "pilgrims,"  which  always 
means  chiefly  the  glorifying  of  Russell,  and  the  rest 
goes  through  to  the  U.  S.  I.  Co.  Ltd.,  which  is  also 
Russell,  and  is  invested  in  lands,  lots,  timber  limits, 
houses,  etc.,  etc.  You  can  see  it  is  all  Russell.  It 
is  claimed  that  he  is  many  times  a  millionaire,  and 
yet  he  has  not  one  cent  that  we  could  find  in  his 
own  name.  If  Mrs.  Russell  were  not  living,  or  if 
the  divorce  were  not  a  limited  one,  would  such  be 
the  case?  To  ask  the  question  is  sufficient. 


CONCLUSION. 

Sufficient  has  been  said.  We  must  keep  the  rest 
of  our  powder  dry,  and,  therefore,  will  conclude. 
I  will  not  say  anything  about  Russell's  teaching  ex- 
cept to  re-affirm  what  was  said  in  the  leaflet.  The 
best  thing  on  his  teaching  is  "Millennial  Dawn- 
ism"  by  Rev.  I.  M.  Haldeman,  D.  D.,  published  by 
C.  C.  Cook,  150  Nassau  St.,  New  York.*  The  teach- 
ing of  Russell  is  contrary  to  all  the  accepted  stand- 

•84  pages,  10  cents. 


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ards  of  faith,  both  Protestant  and  Catholic.  He  de- 
nies not  only  the  fundamentals  of  the  Bible  regard- 
ing the  God-given  plan  of  salvation,  but  admits  that 
his  views  stand  against  the  w^hole  of  Christendom, 
without  exception,  and  denounces  every  creed  and 
every  orthodox  church  from  the  beginning  of  this 
dispensation  to  the  present.  He  claims  that  he  is 
the  only  one  who  has  the  proper  understanding  of 
the  Scriptures,  and  condemns,  without  exception, 
the  translators  of  the  Bible  and  all  ministers  as  un- 
true and  deceitful.  He  does  this  only  to  attract  at- 
tention to  himself  and  his  cult.  For  a  man  to  con- 
demn all  other  men  as  liars,  deceitful  and  cowards, 
as  Russell  is  doing  for  the  purpose  of  exalting  him- 
self, makes  him  a  deceiver  and  a  false  prophet,  and 
one  who  is  not  to  be  trusted  in  matters  of  religion, 
to  say  nothing  of  morals.  We  charge  him  with  a 
moral  nature  very  much  below  par,  for  which  he 
himself  is  to  blame.  Not  to  say  anything  about  his 
"improper,"  "unprofessional"  conduct  with  the  two 
young  women  mentioned  in  the  evidence,  when  his 
followers  must  take  the  following  vow :  "As  far  as 
reasonably  possible,  I  will  avoid  being  in  the  same 
room  with  any  of  the  opposite  sex  alone,  unless  the 
door  of  the  room  stands  wide  open;  exceptions  (in 
the  case  of  brethren,)  wife  and  children,  mother  and 
natural  sisters;  (in  the  case  of  sisters,)  husband, 
children,  father,  and  natural  brethren ;"  we  are  made 
to  think  that  morals  are  not  what  they  ought  to 
be.  If  this  is  evidence  of  good  morals,  I  do  not 
know  yet  what  true  piety  is.   This  is  the  vow  taken 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL  39 


by  many  of  the  Russellites.  What  a  reflection  "on 
the  opposite  sex."  I  charge  him  with  consummate 
conceit.  Under  the  pretext  of  advertising  and  com- 
mending the  Bible,  he  plasters  sanctimonious  pic- 
tures of  his  own  face  over  all  the  bill-boards,  and 
pushes  samples  of  the  same  picture  under  the  doors 
of  our  homes.  Then  in  his  papers  and  in  the  head- 
lines of  his  sermons,  which  he  pays  the  papers  to 
publish,  he  speaks  about  "great  discourses,"  and 
"big  crowds,"  etc.  Any  mountebank  can  get  a 
crowd  by  advertising  himself  as  Russell  does,  but 
he  will  not  get  the  same  crowd  a  second  time.  It  is 
not  every  public  speaker  or  quack  that  can  employ 
a  promoter  or  advance  advertising  agent  to  publish 
abroad  his  coming,  and  the  sensational  themes  of 
his  discourses,  and  pay  him  $3,000  a  year  stipend. 
If  you  have  any  doubt  about  the  absolute  truth  of 
what  I  here  state,  look  in  the  Watch  Tower  'for 
January  1st,  1912,  and  you  will  find  him  speaking 
of  himself  a  hundred  and  seventy-four  times,  and 
the  Lord  and  Master  but  seven  times.  I  charge  Rus- 
sel  also  with  defamatory  libel.  He  swore  here  that 
the  ministers  of  all  denominations  proclaimed  in 
public  what  they  denied  in  private,  and  so  knowing- 
ly and  intentionally  were  deceiving  the  people.  We 
charge  him  with  perjury,  or  wilfully  making  a 
false  oath.  He  denied,  under  oath,  that  he  was 
totally  ignorant  of  the  dead  languages,  etc., 
and  under  the  test  had  to  confess  that  he  knew 
absolutely  nothing  about  them.  We  charge  him, 
also,    with    creating   unhappy    homes    in  our 


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land,  interfering  between  husbands  and  wives, 
and  separating  between  parents  and  children. 
We  have  received  many  letters  telling  how 
much  unhappiness  Russell  and  his  vagaries  have 
caused  in  families.  A  prominent  lawyer  in  one  of 
our  great  cities  wrote  me,  saying  "Russell  broke 
up  my  home,"  and  sent  me  a  letter  of  Russell's 
to  the  lawyer's  wife,  suggesting  divorce  with 
alimony,  and  asking  that  the  letter  be  not  shown  her 
husband.  How  vulgar !  The  following  is  an  extract 
from  that  letter,  written  by  Russell  and  signed  by 
his  own  hand.  It  is  dated  May  15th,  1908,  and  ad- 
dressed from  the  Bible  House,  Alleghany,  Pa.  He 
says:  "Take  up  the  following  prescription.  Your 
'  husband  knows  that  he  has  no  legal  right  to  inter- 
fere with  your  reUgious  principles,  and  that  his  case 
would  not  stand  in  court — that  a  showing  in  court 
that  he  prohibited  you  from  the  exercise  of  your 
conscience  in  a  reasonable  manner  would  be  cruelty 
and  indignity  to  your  person  and  conscience,  and 
be  a  ground  whereon  you  could  have  a  divorce  with 
alimony  sufficient  for  the  support  of  yourself  and 
children  in  reasonable  comfort;  for  I  judge  that 
your  husband  is  a  man  of  talent  and  property." 
His  knowledge  of  Canadian  law  is  something  like 
his  knowledge  of  the  dead  languages.  We  charge 
him  with  accumulating  vast  wealth  out  of  the  gifts 
sent  in  to  him  or  "the  society"  by  the  guileless  on 
the  pretext  that  it  is  alone  the  Lord's  work.  '  If 
these  gifts  all  go  to  the  Lord's  work,  how  can  the 
Watch  Tower  Bible  and  Tract  Society,  which  is  a 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL 


41 


purely  Russell  concern,  a  getting  society,  and  the 
United  States  Investment  Co.,  another  Russell  con- 
cern, a  HOLDING  society,  have  and  retain  so 
much  property?  I  charge  him  with  fraud,  or  prac- 
tising a  course  of  action  which  is  meant  to  deliber- 
ately deceive  the  public,  for  personal  advantage. 
You  will  find  in  the  headlines  of  his  "People's  Pul- 
pit" that  he  announces  himself,  his  paper  and  his 
cult  as  "interdenominational,"  that  is,  something 
that  belongs  to  all  the  denominations.  In  the  use 
of  this  word,  the  paper  is  put  into  the  homes  of  the 
people  by  the  authority  of  the  Baptist,  Methodist, 
Anglican,  Presbyterian  and  even  Roman  Catholics. 
What  a  lie  this  is.  Russell  and  his  satellites  would 
not  be  allowed  in  any  of  the  churches,  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  buildings  or  even  semi-religious  halls  on  the 
American  continent  or  anywhere  else  where  he  and 
his  teachings  are  known,  and  yet  he  is  an  interde- 
nominalist.  You  will  find,  also,  that  he  has  seized 
upon  "the  Layman's  Missionary  Movement"  and  by 
inserting  the  word  "home"  into  that  name  used  to 
deceive  the  people  to  call  attention  to  himself  and 
to  get  "The  Bible  Studies  Monthly,"  another  sheet 
published  by  him  into  the  homes.  People  who  do 
not  know  any  better,  think  when  they  see  this  pa- 
per, that  it  has  behind  it  the  authority  of  the  great 
Layman's  Missionary  movement  of  America.  This 
is  a  sample  of  how  Russell  and  his  followers  deceive 
the  people.  I  charge  him  with  blasphemy,  or  slander 
of  God  and  his  Word.  On  Page  298  of  his  Watch 
Tower  of  the  issue  of  September  15,  1910,  it  is  writ- 


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ten,  concerning  his  books:  "If  the  six  volumes  of 
'Scripture  Studies'  are  practically  the  Bible,  topi- 
cally arranged,  with  Bible  proof  texts  given,  we 
might  not  improperly  name  the  volumes  'the  Bible 
in  an  arranged  form.'  That  is  to  say,  they  are  not 
mere  comments  on  the  Bible,  but  they  are  practi- 
cally the  Bible  itself.  Furthermore,  not  only  do  we 
find  that  people  cannot  see  the  Divine  plan  in  study- 
ing the  Bible  by  itself,  but  we  see,  also,  that  if 
anyone  lays  the  'Scripture  Studies'  aside,  even  after 
he  has  used  them,  after  he  has  become  familiar 
with  them,  after  he  has  read  them  for  ten  years — if 
he  then  lays  them  aside  and  ignores  them  and  goes 
to  the  Bible  alone,  though  he  has  understood  his 
Bible  for  ten  years,  our  experience  shows  that  with- 
in two  years  he  goes  into  darkness.  On  the  other 
hand,  if  he  had  merely  read  the  'Scripture  Studies' 
with  their  references  and  had  not  read  a  page  of  the 
Bible  as  such  he  would  be  in  the  light  at  the  end  of 
two  years,  because  he  would  have  the  light  of  the 
Scriptures."  What  blasphemy!  "When  man  thus 
belittles  God's  Word  and  malces  his  own  superior 
to  that  of  God,  it  seems  to  be  nothing  short  of  the 
worst  kind  of  blasphemy.  Reflect  upon  it — to  con- 
fine oneself  to  the  Bible  means  outer  darkness — to 
take  the  word  of  this  one  man  and  never  read  a  page 
of  the  Bible  means  to  be  in  the  light."  This  inspira- 
tion has  its  origin  in  the  pit!  Who  is  this  man?  He 
claims  to  be  "That  servant"  of  Matthew  24  and  46. 
*Does  it  not  appear  to  be  clear  that  he  is  rather  "that 
man  of  sin"  of  2  Thessalonians,  2  and  3?  With  all 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL  43 


sympathy  and  sincere  regret,  I  commit  this  false 
prophet  and  shepherd  to  Him  who  judges  righte- 
ously, praying  that  the  Lord  may  open  his  eyes  and 
the  eyes  of  his  followers  before  it  is  eternally  too 
late,  for  it  is  a  fearful  thing  to  fall  into  the  hands  of 
a  holy  and  just  God  with  sins  unforgiven. 


RUSSELL'S  EXPLANATION. 

It  is  now  May  26th,  1913.  It  was  on  the  1st  ult. 
that  the  decision  of  the  Grand  Jury  was  handed 
down.  I  have  waited  all  of  this  time  to  see  v/hat 
Mr.  Russell  would  say  in  his  official  organ,  "Zion's 
Watch  Tower,"  about  his  treatment  here  in  Hamil- 
ton. Up  to  this  date  no  word  from  him  in  that 
paper  has  been  uttered.  Seemingly  it  is  his 
purpose  to  treat  the  decision  of  the  jury  here 
with  absolute  silence,  so  far  as  the  Watch 
Tower  is  concerned.  Had  the  decision  been  in 
his  favor  or  had  I  apologized,  it  would  have  been 
vastly  different.  The  world  would  have  known 
it  long  before  this.  But  it  seems  that  many  of 
his  followers  have  been  urging  him  to  speak  out 
and  to  explain  why  he  did  not,  and  does  not,  take 
action  against  me  for  libel  in  the  civil  court;  right- 
fully they  are  eagerly  desirous  to  see,  if  at  all  possi- 
ble, their  chief  executive  vindicate  himself.  As  a 
result  of  the  pressure  that  has  been  brought  to  bear 
upon  him,  at  last,  he  has  sent  out  a  circular  letter 


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dated  May  16th,  1913,  to  all  the  readers  of  Zion's 
V/atch  Tower,  the  paper  of  which  he  is  Editor,  ex- 
plaining why  he  did  not  take  action  against  me  in 
the  Canadian  Civil  Court.  These  are  his  exact 
v/ords,  "I  did  not  think  it  worth  while  to  sue  Rev. 
Ross  for  money  damages  when  he  had  no  money." 
When  he  thinks  it  to  his  advantage  and  thus  draw 
public  attention  to  himself,  he  goes  about  saying 
that  the  preachers  in  "Babylon"  have  lots  of  money, 
for  they  get  such  big  stipends,  etc.  But  this  poor 
preacher  has  "no  money."  I  wonder  how  much 
he  wants?  When  Mr.  Russell  asked  me  to  apolo- 
gize, he  assured  me  that  he  had  no  "unkind  feel- 
ings," that  his  purpose  in  taking  legal  action  was 
not  to  put  me  in  jail,  but  rather  to  "stop  me  in  a 
wrong  course"  and  to  clear  himself.  He  confessed 
that  he  did  not  have  the  power  to  stop  me,  as  Saul 
of  Tarsus  was  stopped.  Of  course,  he  had  no  ul- 
terior motive  in  taking  the  action  that  he  did !  Now 
he  tells  his  followers  that  the  reason  that  he  did  not 
take  action  in  a  civil  court  for  "money  damages,"  is 
because  I  have  "no  money."  Just  think  of  it,  "no 
money"!  Then  plainly,  he  is  not  anxious  about 
clearing  himself.  A  five-cent  verdict — or  a  verdict 
without  one  cent  damages  in  his  favor,  would  go 
a  long  distance  in  clearing  him  and  restraining  oth- 
ers from  exposing  him.  It  is  money  that  he  is  af- 
ter. Is  this  not  in  perfect  keeping  with  the  whole 
of  his  methods  in  his  Judaized  and  Paganized  re- 
ligious propaganda?  Had  I  money — but  of  course 
I  have  no  money — then  he  is  sure — positively  sure 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL 


45 


— that  the  civil  court  of  Canada  v/ould  give  him 
some  of  it.  I  am  sincerely  sorry  that  I  have  no 
money,  and  that  the  wileful  Brooklyn  "Pastor" 
knows  it.  The  Washington  Post  has  lots  of  money ; 
that  paper  exposed  him  and  Russell  took  action  in 
the  civil  court  of  that  State  for  libel  against  that 
paper,  asking  for  a  large  sum  of  money.  That  civil 
court  gave  him  judgment  for  the  enormous  sum  of 
$1.  He  did  not  get  very  much  money  that  time. 
The  Post  had  lots  of  money,  and  why  did  he  only 
get  $1  by  the  judgment  of  the  court?  The  Brook- 
lyn Eagle  has  an  abundance  of  money.  Because 
that  paper  compelled  him  to  stand  forth  in  the 
limelight  in  his  true  colors,  Russell  sued  them  in 
the  civil  court  of  New  York,  for  the  handsome  sum 
of  $100,000.  The  civil  court  gave  judgment  against 
him,  thus  justifying  the  Eagle  for  exposing  him. 
And  now  Mr.  Russell  tells  his  followers,  as  an  ex- 
planation, which  is  certainly  satisfactory  to  many 
of  them,  that  the  reason  for  not  taking  further  ac- 
tion against  me  is  because  I  have  no  money.  The 
fact  is  that  he  took  action  in  the  civil  court  of  New 
York  and  failed,  and  then,  thinking  that  he  would 
be  successful  he  took  action  against  me  in  the  crim- 
inal court  of  Canada.  The  both  courts  have  pro- 
nounced against  him,  and  he  stands  before  the 
world  still  covered  with  the  many  sins  charged 
against  him. 


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"THE  UNDER-WORLD  OF  THE  DEAD," 
or 

"THE  ABODE  OF  THE  DEPARTED 
SPIRITS." 

This  pamphlet  was  prepared  for  and  read  as  a 
paper  before  the  Toronto,  Canada,  Ministerial  As- 
sociation, on  April  22d,  1912.  The  Ministers  re- 
quested that  it  be  published  in  this  form  that  it 
might  have  a  wide  circulation.  The  following  let- 
ters will  be  sufficient  to  speak  for  it.  The  pam- 
phlet can  be  obtained  from  the  author  at  10  cents 
per  copy,  exclusive  of  postage. 


LETTERS  COMMENDATORY. 

April  30th,  1912. 

Dear  Brother  Ross: 

Permit  me  to  thank  you  most  heartily  for  your 
very  excellent  paper  on  "The  Under-World  of  the 
Dead."  Your  treatment  of  this  subject  is  most 
helpful  and  illuminating.  It  is  manifestly  the  re- 
sult of  a  thorough  study  of  the  Scriptures  and  a 
wide  reading  of  extra-biblical  literature  on  'this 
theme.  It  ought  to  be  of  great  service  in  these 
days,  when  so  much  is  being  taught  and  written 
that  is  so  entirely  opposed  to  the  teachings  of  God's 
Word.    On  this,  as  on  any  theme  connected  with 


ABOUT  "PASTOR"  RUSSELL 


47 


religion,  it  is  exceedingly  important  that  we  should 
hear  what  God  the  Lord  has  spoken. 
Sincerely  yours, 

B.  W.  MERRILL,  B.  A., 

52  Rose  Avenue. 
Associate  Pastor  of  Jarvis  St.  Baptist  Church. 


This  excellent  paper  received  the  hearty  com- 
mendation of  the  Ministerial  Association  of  Toron- 
to. It  indicated  a  laborious  and  thoughtful  exam- 
ination of  every  passage  of  Scripture  bearing  upon 
the  subject  as  to  its  meaning  and  systematic  rela- 
tions. Once  again  it  evinces  the  need  of  an  honest 
theologian  to  interpret  Scripture  and  the  crying 
need  of  theologians  in  our  modern  pulpits.  Mr. 
Ross  uses  Scriptural  discriminations,  no  matter 
what  men  may  think.  He  completely  slays  the 
modern  heresy  of  "Millennial  Dawnism"  and  its 
annihilation  and  restoration  theories  and  also  of 
soul  sleeping.  The  Bible  settles  every  conclusion 
for  him.  It  is  concise,  lucid,  and  is  worthy  of  wide 
circulation.  May  the  Lord  bless  its  distinctive 
message  to  an  unbelieving  age. 

JOHN  McINTOSH,  B.  A., 
Secretary  of  Ministerial  Association. 
405  St.  Clarence  Ave.,  Toronto,  Ont. 


I  listened  with  great  interest  and  profit  to  Mr. 
Ross'  admirable  paper.    His  careful  biblical  treat' 


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ment  of  rather  a  diflficult  theme,  throws  light  on 
a  number  of  important  questions,  and  is  especially 
calculated  to  expose  the  unscripturalness  of  certain 
current  isms  -which  are  harmful  in  their  tendencies 
as  they  are  active  in  the  propaganda. 

J.  H.  FARMER,  LL.  D., 
McMaster  University, 
Professor  of  New  Testament  Greek. 
Toronto,  April  29th,  1912. 


NOTE. 

Every  day  brings  me  a  large  number  of  letters 
asking  for  information  about  Russell  and  Russell- 
ism.  Without  any  malice  or  thought  of  revenge, 
but  wishing  to  warn  the  innocent  public  and  to  pro- 
tect weak  Christians,  I  willingly  consent  to  the  pub- 
lication of  this  pamphlet,  giving  only  a  few  of  the 
facts  on  hand.  J.  J.  R. 


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"Pastor  Russell"  Apologizes. 
"Soft  Stuff"  Re:  Pastor  Russell. 
"Pastor  Russell"  and  the  Preachers. 
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The  author  has  collated  a  number  oi  interesting 
facts,  and  has  interwoven  them  with  arguments  and 
conclusions  that  cannot  be  refuted. 

TTiere  are  quotations  from  the  best  writers  against 
Russell  and  Millennial  Dawnism,  the  most  valuable 
of  which  are  long  extracts  from  the  famous  articles  by 
Mr.  W.  T.  Ellis  which  appeared  in  The  Coniinent 
under  the  title  "AN  INVESTIGATOR  INVES- 
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Millennial  Dawnism  or  The  Blasphe- 
mous Religion  which  Teaches  the 
Annihilation  of  Jesus  Christ. 

—By  I.  M.  HALX)EMAN.  D.D. 
A  comprehensive  and  effective  aniwer  to  the  modem  popular 
heresy  of  Millennialdawn,  convincing  every  unprejudiced  minti  of 
the  fallacy  of  thii  deitnictri'e  delusion.    Attractiye  booklet. 
lOOtA  T housand,  84  pages  I  Oc 


PHILADELPHIA  SCHOOL  OF  THE  BIBLE 

1721-23  Spring  Garden  Straet,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


Seiving-and"  Waiting" 


Treating  the  International  Sunday  School  Lesson 
A  Monthly  Bible  Study  Magazine 

Each  issue  containing  a  sermon  by  Dr.  C.  I.  Sco- 
field.  Ably  written  articles  on  fundamental  doc- 
trines and  a  thorough  treatment  of  the  Sunday 
School  lesson. 

Edited  by 
WILLIAM   L.  PETTINGILL 

The  author  of  "God's  Prophecies  for  Plain  People," 
"Simple  Studies  in  Matthew,"  "Romans,"  "Dan- 
iel," "Revelation";  "Israel,  Jehovah's  Cov- 
enant People";  "The  Coming  One,"  Etc. 


The  estimate  of  Charles  G.  Trumbull,  Editor 
of  the  "Sunday  School  Times,"  of  Mr.  Pettlngill: 

"Mr.  Pettingill  has  the  Spirlt-giyen  gift  of 
teaching  mentioned  by  Paul  in  his  letters  to  the 
Corinthians  and  the  Ephesians  in  a  marked  de- 
gree. A  keen  sense  of  humor  is  only  one  of  the 
elements  that  enter  into  his  magnetic  personality. 
Like  Moody,  he  realizes  the  value  of  a  sanctified 
imagination.  My  soul  was  thrilled  as  I  heard  him 
several  years  ago  at  a  Bible  Conference  picture  a 
scene  that  would  take  place  in  the  Cave  of  Mac- 
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